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Philadelphia – I met Greg, who is about my age, because we both had an early dinner Center townAnd although our conversation was calm and friendly, like a progressive democrat, he is very literally afraid and even angry about President Donald Trump in ways that seem wild to me.
“If I had to pull a gun on a Republican, that’s what I should do,” Greg told me. “This is the largest intersection in our country since the civil war.”
It didn’t feel particularly threatening. Although he knew I was a Republican who voted for Trump, I thought he didn’t mean me.
But he certainly meant something.
Greg, whom I met in Philadelphia, cannot believe that Republicans are happy with the performance of President Trump. (Fox News Digital)
Later in the day, in a sleepy West Philly of large houses, which is so far left, makes the Center City look TexasI spoke with three students. I was curious if they had experienced tense relationships with friends or family about politics.
“Yes,” a young woman told me, “but I don’t think I am a good judge in character.” The clear message was that everyone who would vote for Trump is not someone with whom she or her friends want something to do.
Our conversation was demolished after they told me that Trump’s dei cuts were a big problem for them, where I asked, what do you mean by Dei? In addition, they moved to another table. Again, it was not unpleasant, but it was noticed.
The pure pace of change under Trump excites its supporters, but an owner of a bookstore seemed anxious. (Fox News Digital)
In the block, at a charming local bookstore, John, the owner, was so kind to find a book by Mary Beard that I had not read and to talk a small political.
“It is a lot of change suddenly,” he told me ominously, which reflects something that I hear from many voters.
One thing that almost all the Democrats I spoke to in the city of Brotherly Love seems to believe is that there are large parts of Trump voters in the hinterland who should certainly regret having voted for Trump.
We saw this attitude “Real Time with Bill Maher“In the weekend, when guest Batya Ungar-Sargon shocked him by not only saying that she does not regret her voice for Trump, but that she is proud of it.
I was confronted with comparable disbelief of Greg: this assumption, based on slender to no details, that this time the actions of Trump have been so drastic that we should certainly understand what a profound mistake we voted for him, even if we cannot say that to save the face.
Flashback: Philadelphia is Kamala Harris’ Alamo, and the nervous democrats here know it
Or they believe.
Much of this amounts to bubbles, and no, they are not just progressives that live in it. In my small city in West Virginia it is completely normal to see Maga hats in the Walmart, and few people seem to think that Trump’s presidency is a crisis. So, what exactly people in Philly and other blue enclaves react so dramatically?
One thing that I felt of everyone with whom I spoke was that this iteration of a Trump presidency seems entirely to them. This time there are no republicans such as John McCain to show Trump a thumb down, not cabinet members who insist on restraint. This has been released Trump.
It is not even about results, because in two months the results of Trump’s policy are not yet. It’s about the actions themselves.
The dismissing of federal workers, the rates on our allies, a friendlier approach to Putin, deportations of illegal immigrants, even something everyday as the rename of a certain water body “The Gulf of America”, feel like personal attacks for many Democrats. And there is nothing they can do to stop.
At least in the short term there seems to be nothing that all the hair can extinguish on the progressive links.
But, in the midst of the overwhelming and released reaction to Trump among the Democrats of Philly, I met a Republican, a tourist who offered a bit of a warning sign for the Trump government.
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“I am proud to be a Republican and voted for Trump,” he told me about a cigarette late in the evening outside our hotel, “but these rates have me nervous.” I pressed him why and he said, “I am a seller. If everything we sell from Mexico shoots in price, we don’t know what to do.”
“Well,” I asked, “how long do you think it would take before that production moved to the US?”
“Two or three years,” he said. “But I don’t trade in two or three years, I can be made in two or three months.”
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One thing that everyone agrees is that Trump is moving quickly. For some, that causes horror. It is exciting for others. But Democrats are mistaken when they think Trump is regretted voters, even those who are a bit nervous.
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